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NEW DELHI: The email account of Finance Ministry spokesperson has been hacked by someone purportedly in United Kingdom who is sending mails and asking for money. "Our mail has been hacked, therefore, please ignore all the mails originating from London address asking for money," Finance Ministry spokesperson and Additional DG (Media & Communication) D S Malik said. The hacker, who is sending mail from the official email account, sought 1,500 pounds pretending that Malik is in trouble and urgently needs monetary help.

NEW DELHI: Amitabh Bachchan's son-in-law and business tycoon Nikhil Nanda today lodged a police complaint about his email account has been hacked. According to the police, Nanda in his complaint with the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police has said that after hacking his email account, the hacker sent several mails to his friends demanding a favour of lakh of pounds from them. "After hacking the account, the hacker had sent emails to his friends saying that Nanda is in Manchester in United Kingdom where his niece has been admitted in a hospital in a critical condition and is in need of money," said a senior police officer . "Demanding a few lakh pounds to be credited in a specific account, the mail further says that he (Nanda)

NEW DELHI: Hassled about failed attempts to access a website? Chances are that you may be at the receiving end of a 'distributed denial of service attack', where a deliberate blast of traffic by a hacker cripples access to a particular site. But India's top-level domain '.in' could soon be logging-out such malicious attempts. Afilias India, which provides technical services to National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), has embarked on a project that would protect country code internet domain '.in' from increasing instances of 'distributed denial of service' cyber attacks.

MUMBAI: Cybercrime involving overseas gangs is turning into a fast-growing menace, especially for small exporters that have seen a fivefold jump in fraudulent transactions in their accounts over the past three years or so. Cyber frauds have increased 25-30% in the past one year alone, according to an estimate by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO). "We currently hear about 100 fraud cases every month from our members compared with 15-20 cases 2-3 years ago," said Amit Goyal, vice-president of FIEO.

NEW YORK: Computer users should be careful while using Wi-Fi hotspots at airports and other public places, to prevent hackers lurking around from having access to sensitive information, US Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned. As a matter routine, the FBI says people "kill" time at airports connecting to airport's Wi-Fi to check their office e-mail, do personal banking or shop for a gift. But they should first consider the odds, for there could be a hacker nearby, with his own laptop, attempting to "eavesdrop" on their computer to obtain personal data.

MUMBAI: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), ranked among top 20 American universities, is at the receiving end of a hacker's attack. The university has sent emails to around eight lakh students, including alumni, staff, parents, faculty members and student applicants informing them that the campus database has been hacked. The hacking was detected only last month though the hacker has been accessing the database since October 2005. The attack may have serious implications for the students as the database contained their contact details and social security numbers, which is enough for obtaining a credit card.

NEW DELHI: Four months after being hacked, the official website of veteran BJP leader L K Advani was today again hacked allegedly by Pakistani hackers, but was restored soon thereafter. Sources close to Advani confirmed that the website was hacked but efforts were made and it was restored soon. The website was, however, not available till late in the evening. On April 21, a hacker who called himself Muhammad Bilal, wrote "Pakistan Zindabad" messages on the site and called for an end to "militarised governance in Kashmir".

SAN FRANCISCO: Breaking into someone's e-mail can be child's play for a determined hacker, as Twitter Inc employees have learned the hard way, again. For the third time this year, the San Francisco-based company was the victim of a security breach stemming from a simple end-run around its defenses: A hacker guessed the password for an employee's personal e-mail account and worked from there to steal confidential company documents. The techniques used by the attackers highlight the dangers of a broader trend promoted by Google Inc and others toward storing more data online, instead of on computers under your control.

WASHINGTON: Edward Snowden , former CIA contractor who honed his hacking skills in India before leaking US' secret surveillance programmes, has said he was "trained as a spy" and dismissed America's assertion that he was a low-level hacker. "I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word -- in that I lived and worked undercover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that I'm not -- and even being assigned a name that was not mine," Snowden said in a interview to NBC News, his first with a US television network.

LONDON: Britain will review its extradition laws following criticism that it is too easy for the U.S. to extradite suspects from the country. Officials say Home Secretary Theresa May plans to announce details of the planned yearlong review Wednesday. Lawyers complain that under "fast track" extradition procedures introduced after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. is not required to offer substantial proof of an allegation when seeking to extradite a suspect from Britain.